Bandits have abducted some students of the Federal Government Girls College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State.
Details of the incident remain sketchy but there are reports that a security operative stationed at the school, was shot dead during the incident.
A security source said the bandits stormed the school on motorcycles from neighbouring Rijau forest, overpowering the policeman before killing him.
The source added that at least 30 students and three teachers were abducted.
It would be recalled that school abductions had become rampant since the
2014 kidnap of 276 schoolgirls in the north-eastern town of Chibok by Islamist militants Boko Haram brought global attention.However, as recent as on May 30 this year, pupils were abducted from an Islamic School in Tegina, Niger State. And only Two weeks later, bandits abducted staff and students at Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic in Kaduna State.
